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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?
(a) A video cassette.
(b) A political pamphlet.
(c) A gun.
(d) A bicycle.

2. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?
(a) A dog is loose on her property.
(b) A vagrant on her property.
(c) The pool house is on fire.
(d) A homeless man is exposing himself.

3. What does the narrator give to the person that lives near her house the first evening?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cigarettes.

4. What prevents the narrator from going shopping in Part One?
(a) Her can does not run.
(b) Her farorite soap opera has a marathon.
(c) The rain.
(d) Pain.

5. Where does Bheki sleep?
(a) The pool house.
(b) The narrator's car.
(c) The backyard shed.
(d) The guest bedroom.

6. How does the narrator speak to the person that lives near her house?
(a) Softly.
(b) In a condescending manner.
(c) Loudly.
(d) With respect.

7. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?
(a) Tea.
(b) Cocoa.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Water.

8. Where does the housekeeper's husband work?
(a) At a chicken farming plant.
(b) At a chemical plant.
(c) At an electricity plant.
(d) At a car plant.

9. What is the name of the homeless man?
(a) Mr Clown.
(b) Mr Auteille.
(c) Mr Clack.
(d) Mr Vercueil.

10. When does the person the narrator met at the start of Part One return?
(a) In the evening.
(b) In the afternoon.
(c) In the morning.
(d) Around noon.

11. Where is the person the narrator finds at the start of Part One?
(a) Near her garage.
(b) Near her pool.
(c) Near the grocery store.
(d) Near her neighbor's house

12. What does the narrator want to do before being discouraged from doing so by Florence?
(a) Bring Bheki to the police.
(b) Bring Bheki to a white doctor.
(c) File a complaint about the police.
(d) Call the mayor's office.

13. What is the ethnicity of the narrator?
(a) Black.
(b) Indian.
(c) White.
(d) Japanese.

14. What does the narrator ask the man to do after seeing what he purchased?
(a) To give the unspent money to a charity.
(b) To keep the unspent money.
(c) To return what he purchased.
(d) To return the unspent money to her.

15. Why does Vercueil say the narrator should tell her daughter about her cancer?
(a) Because she needs all the support she can get.
(b) Because her daughter is married to an oncologist.
(c) Because if her daughter finds out later she would never forgive the narrator.
(d) Because she could have a visa for the U.S.A.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person helping the narrator say she could do with the extra room in her house?

2. What does the narrator ask her housekeeper to do after speaking with the police?

3. What does the narrator think about after the person she found leaves the house?

4. What does access to money allow Mr. Vercueil to do?

5. Who does the narrator want to bring with Florence and her?

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